LOVE IS POP PLAYLIST: APRIL RULES 2014 (NOW LISTENABLE ON SPOTIFY!)

I always liked the idea of sharing playlists with our readers but the idea never really took flight. I asked my writers to contribute playlists as well as some musicians but nobody was into it. I guess you need to be a big magazine like NYLON to get artists to share playlists with you. In any case, now we live in a new era because we can stream things on Spotify. And it’s free. Granted, you need to listen to a brief commercial every few songs or so, but you can still listen to anything on there for free. (Or, if you’ve got ten bucks a month to spare, get a paid account and stop hearing commercials.) Anyway, this isn’t an advertisement for Spotify, but it’s given me new motivation to post playlists here because now I can create them on Spotify and our readers can click on the links with each playlist and actually go listen to them. I should think people will be a lot more interested in reading playlists that they can actually go listen to!

For years, I’ve been creating a playlist each month on iTunes. Many of the tracks are new singles, but some of them are also just album cuts from new albums. But they’re 99% new music. I can’t re-create them here entirely, due to the fact that I include a lot of foreign language music and there’s very little Asian music on Spotify, but whatever I put on those playlists that they have on Spotify, I will now include in a monthly Spotify playlist. Here’s the first installment (and, note, songs will be added to this all month):

APRIL RULES 2014

(the tracks aren’t numbered because the order they appear in may change throughout the month because when I add new tracks I insert them where they’ll flow best)

An entertainment journalist for 20 years, Michael McCarthy was a columnist and contributing editor for the magazines Lollipop and LiveWire. He co-created and wrote for Cinezine, one of the '90's most popular movie E-zines. The only time he's not listening to music is when he's watching television shows and movies or reading, usually music magazines.

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